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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Shakira speaks at U.N. headquarters

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 Kyodo - International pop star Shakira, a United Nations Children's Fund goodwill ambassador, speaks at a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 22, 2015. She urged global leaders to come together to demand a just end to the humanitarian crisis in Syria after talking about the necessity to invest heavily in early childhood development.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi speaks at an event celebrating her 30 years of work as goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Nov. 26, 2014.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi makes a toast at an event celebrating her 30 years of work as goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Nov. 26, 2014.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi attends an event celebrating her 30 years of work as goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Nov. 26, 2014.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in August 2004 shows Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (L), a Japanese goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, embracing a girl in Goma, eastern Congo. Kuroyanagi, who marked 30 years in 2014 since assuming the UNICEF post, says she wants to continue charitable works for 20 more years until the age of 100.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, a Japanese actress, talk-show hostess, author of children's books and goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF. Kuroyanagi, who marked 30 years in 2014 since assuming the UNICEF post, says she wants to continue charitable works for 20 more years until the age of 100.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in June 2006 shows Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (C back), a Japanese goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, taking a class with children at a school with clay walls in the Ivory Coast. Kuroyanagi, who marked 30 years in 2014 since assuming the UNICEF post, says she wants to continue charitable works for 20 more years until the age of 100.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in June 2006 shows Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, a Japanese goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, standing at a building ruined by a civil war in the Ivory Coast. Kuroyanagi, who marked 30 years in 2014 since assuming the UNICEF post, says she wants to continue charitable works for 20 more years until the age of 100.

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Kuroyanagi, UNICEF goodwill ambassador for 30 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in June 2006 shows Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (C), a Japanese goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF, surrounded by children in Bouake, in the central part of the Ivory Coast. Kuroyanagi, who marked 30 years in 2014 since assuming the UNICEF post, says she wants to continue charitable works for 20 more years until the age of 100.

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Yoko Ono joins UNICEF event for children's rights

NEW YORK, United States - Yoko Ono (front) participates in the event held by the United Nations Children's Fund at the U.N. headquarters in New York, the United States, on Nov. 20, 2014, on the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention of the Rights of the Child. The event marked the kickoff of a project using a famous song "Imagine" by her late husband and Beatles member John Lennon.

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7 int'l bodies hold joint recruitment seminar in Japan

KYOTO, Japan - The United Nations and six other international organizations hold a joint recruitment seminar at Doshisha University in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 20, 2014. The six others include the U.N. Children's Fund, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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UNICEF chief meets students in disaster-hit Japan region

ONAGAWA, Japan - U.N. Children's Fund Executive Director Anthony Lake (far L) meets students in front of a stone monument at Onagawa Junior High School in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 25, 2014. Students set up the monument, with the words "Onagawa stone monument of life -- To protect lives 1,000 years after" inscribed on it, to pass down lessons from the deadly 2011 tsunami to younger generations.

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UNICEF chief in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Anthony Lake (L), executive director of the U.N. Children's Fund, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meet at the premier's office in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2014.

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UNICEF chief in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Anthony Lake (L), executive director of the U.N. Children's Fund, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands at the premier's office in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2014.

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UNICEF in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Masumi Yamashina (R) of the U.N. Children's Fund instructs volunteers on the care of children at a base for U.N. peacekeepers in Juba, South Sudan, on Feb. 13, 2014.

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Fight against malaria

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Astrid of Belgium (R), special representative to the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on April 22, 2013, ahead of World Malaria Day. At left is Fatoumata Nafo-Traore, executive director of the initiative launched in 1998 by the World Health Organization, the U.N. Children's Fund and other entities.

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Japanese UNICEF officer

DAMASCUS, Syria - Photo taken March 21, 2013 shows Iman Morooka, a UNICEF communications officer, at the office of the U.N. Children's Fund in Damascus during her two-month mission in civil war-torn Syria.

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UNICEF photo exhibition

NEW YORK, United States - A photo exhibition on the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami disaster that hit northeastern Japan opens in New York on March 5, 2012, featuring works depicting damage and affected children by news photographers and freelancers based in Japan. The exhibition, called Children and the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami -- UNICEF at Work, at the U.N. headquarters, was organized by the Japan Committee for the U.N. Children's Fund.

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UNICEF photo exhibition

NEW YORK, United States - A photo exhibition on the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami disaster that hit northeastern Japan opens in New York on March 5, 2012, featuring works depicting damage and affected children by news photographers and freelancers based in Japan. The exhibition, called Children and the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami -- UNICEF at Work, at the U.N. headquarters, was organized by the Japan Committee for the U.N. Children's Fund.

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UNICEF executive director Lake

TOKYO, Japan - Anthony Lake, executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on June 3, 2011. Lake is visiting Japan to attend an international conference on implementing the U.N. Millennium Development Goals on poverty reduction and to inspect disaster-hit areas in northeastern Japan.

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School built in Afghanistan with Japan's support

KABUL, Afghanistan - Girls sing during a ceremony to mark completion of the building of their high school in Kabul on Dec. 11, 2010. The building is the first to be finished under the ''Thousand Classroom Project'' to construct 58 school buildings in Afghanistan through 2012 with $24 million in Japanese grants-in-aid via the U.N. Children's Fund.

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New UNCEF chief Lake in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - U.N. Children's Fund Executive Director Anthony Lake speaks at the United Nations University in Tokyo on May 12, 2010. Lake, former U.S. President Bill Clinton's national security advisor, took the post early that month.

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U.N. chief Ban asks Japanese goodwill envoys to mobilize people

TOKYO, Japan - Visiting U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (L) shakes hands with Japanese actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, who has been working as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund for the past 25 years, at the U.N. University in Tokyo's Shibuya district on July 1. Ban asked Japanese goodwill ambassadors and supporters for U.N. agencies to convey messages on matters such as peace, security, climate change and disarmament as well as mobilize people.

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TICAD: UNICEF releases report on state of Africa's children

YOKOHAMA, Japan - UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman (3rd from L) and other participants in the Tokyo International Conference on African Development pose for a commemorative photo in Yokohama on May 28 holding copies of a report on the state of Africa's children released by the U.N. Children's Fund on the opening day of the three-day meeting.

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NPO donates money to UNICEF by collecting metal from dentures

SAITAMA, Japan - A denture collection box set up by the Saitama-based Japan Denture Recycling Association in the city of Ageo, Saitama Prefecture. The association recycles precious metals collected from unneeded dentures and donates the profits to the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) and municipal governments.

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UNICEF chief praises Japan, highlights new challenges

LONDON, England - Ann Veneman , executive director of the U.N. Children's Fund, poses for photos before her interview with Kyodo News in London on Dec. 13. She thanked Japan for its support of her organization, but warned that the international community needs to do more to help the world's ''invisible'' children.

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Action hero Jackie Chan in Cambodia to help UNICEF, UNAIDS

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Popular Hong Kong action-film star Jackie Chan speaks at a press conference in Phnom Penh on April 26 after arriving there for a three-day visit to promote the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the U.N. AIDS (UNAIDS) program. The movie star was appointed goodwill ambassador by UNICEF and UNAIDS.

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Japanese students donate 14.7 mil. yen to UNICEF

NEW YORK, United States - A group of four Japanese students from Yokohama poses for photos with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan (C) at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Nov. 1 after donating 14.7 million yen for the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF). The money was collected by elementary and junior high school students in Yokohama over the past year.

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Actress Kuroyanagi meets with Somalian children

HARGEISA, Somalia - Japanese actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (R), goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), visits a primary school in Hargeisa of Somaliland, northeastern Somalia, on July 25.

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UNICEF envoy Kuroyanagi visits drought-hit Afghan region

HERAT, Afghanistan - Japanese actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (C), a goodwill ambassador of the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), passes out relief goods for children Feb. 6 in a drought-hit village near Herat, western Afghanistan.

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Kuroyanagi meets with Afghan children in Herat

HERAT, Afghanistan - Japanese actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (2nd from R), a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), is greeted by children when she visits a primary school in Herat, western Afghanistan, on Feb. 5.

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Nigel Fisher

TOKYO, Japan - Nigel Fisher, special representative for the U.N. Children's Fund's (UNICEF) Humanitarian Operations for Afghan Children, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo during his visit to Japan in January, 2002

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UNICEF seeks continued humanitarian aid for Afghans

TOKYO, Japan - Nigel Fisher, special representative for the U.N. Children's Fund's (UNICEF) Humanitarian Operations for Afghan Children, addresses a gathering at UNICEF House in Tokyo on Jan. 23. He stressed the humanitarian crisis is not over in the war-torn country despite the start of rehabilitation there, and urged continued international assistance especially in education.

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UNICEF chief receives honorary degree from Ferris Univ.

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Carol Bellamy, head of the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), gives a lecture after receiving an honorary doctorate from Ferris University in Yokohama on Dec. 18 for her efforts to protect children around the world.

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Tanaka's advisory panel holds first session

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (L) greets Chie Nakane (C), professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, and actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (R), a goodwill ambassador of the U.N. Children's Fund, who arrived at the Foreign Ministry on Sept. 5 to attend the first session of her advisory panel on foreign policy.

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Tanaka meets advisory panel members on foreign policy

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (R) addresses members of a new advisory panel to the minister which met for the first time Sept. 5 at her ministry. The members discussed issues related to Japan's foreign affairs to assist Tanaka in drawing up policies. The members include actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (L), a goodwill ambassador of the U.N. Children's Fund, and Tama University President Gregory Clark (C).

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Envoy urges Koizumi to spare UNICEF in ODA cut

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) and Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japan's goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), shake hands at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Aug. 29. Kuroyanagi, an actress, urged Koizumi not to reduce Japan's contributions to the organization in the fiscal 2002 state budget.

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UNICEF envoy to ask premier to spare aid cut

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, an actress and a Japanese goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), says she will visit Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Aug. 29 to request that the government not reduce its contributions to the organization.

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UNICEF envoy Kuroyanagi visits refugee Afghan children

HERAT, Afghanistan - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (L), a Japanese goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), talks with students at a U.N.-supported tent school near Herat, western Afghanistan on July 22. She visited and observed classes at the school that opened in May and resumed classes this month after being temporarily closed by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban officials.

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UNICEF to honor actress Kuroyanagi for helping children

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (file photo), a Japanese actress and television personality, will be honored by the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) for helping children in poverty and civil strife. The 67-year-old Kuroyanagi, who is serving as UNICEF's goodwill ambassador, will be the first recipient of the ''Global Leadership for Children Award'' established by UNICEF to mark the 10th anniversary of the 1990 World Summit for Children.

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Japan UNICEF envoy visits West Timor refugee camp

KUPANG, Indonesia - Agnes Chan (L), envoy for the Japan Committee for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), chats with a women afraid of returning to East Timor during her visit to a refugee camp in Kupang, West Timor, on June 14. Chan, a Hong Kong-born singer and TV personality based in Japan, made the visit as part of a week-long mission to study the conditions of children stranded in refugee camps in West Timor and in U.N.-ruled East Timor.

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UNICEF chief in Tokyo

U.N. Children's Fund Executive Director Catherine Russell gives an interview in Tokyo on Nov. 4, 2022.

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UNICEF chief receives honorary degree from Ferris Univ.

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Carol Bellamy, head of the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), gives a lecture after receiving an honorary doctorate from Ferris University in Yokohama on Dec. 18 for her efforts to protect children around the world.

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UNICEF chief praises Japan, highlights new challenges

LONDON, England - Ann Veneman , executive director of the U.N. Children's Fund, poses for photos before her interview with Kyodo News in London on Dec. 13. She thanked Japan for its support of her organization, but warned that the international community needs to do more to help the world's ''invisible'' children. (Kyodo)

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Tanaka meets advisory panel members on foreign policy

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (R) addresses members of a new advisory panel to the minister which met for the first time Sept. 5 at her ministry. The members discussed issues related to Japan's foreign affairs to assist Tanaka in drawing up policies. The members include actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (L), a goodwill ambassador of the U.N. Children's Fund, and Tama University President Gregory Clark (C).

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Tanaka's advisory panel holds first session

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (L) greets Chie Nakane (C), professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, and actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (R), a goodwill ambassador of the U.N. Children's Fund, who arrived at the Foreign Ministry on Sept. 5 to attend the first session of her advisory panel on foreign policy.

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Beckham attends U.N. event

Former English footballer David Beckham (C) poses for commemorative photos during an event at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 24, 2015. Beckham, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund, called for improving the welfare of children. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nearly 1 million children left school-less by Nepal quake

Teachers clear the debris of a destroyed school building in Kathmandu on May 6, 2015. Nearly 1 million children in Nepal will be unable to return to school soon as almost 24,000 classrooms have been damaged or destroyed by the recent earthquake, the U.N. Children's Fund said on May 8. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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UNICEF expert discusses education in 3 Ebola-hit African nations

Sayoko Aoki (front), an education expert in charge of western and central Africa at the U.N. Children's Fund, speaks in Tokyo on April 2, 2015, about school education in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, which are still caught up in the Ebola epidemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Action hero Jackie Chan in Cambodia to help UNICEF, UNAIDS

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Popular Hong Kong action-film star Jackie Chan speaks at a press conference in Phnom Penh on April 26 after arriving there for a three-day visit to promote the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the U.N. AIDS (UNAIDS) program. The movie star was appointed goodwill ambassador by UNICEF and UNAIDS. (Kyodo)